SpaceX did that. Stop attributing the work of thousands to one.

Cant you hang a USB GPIO off the side?

Pi3s and above can boot from USB

At that price point, why not just go for a Alder Lake 'NUC' mini computer? Full x86-64, PCIE4, DDR4 or DDR5 support, full virtualization, etc. Comes with a full casing and power supply. I was gonna get a Pi5 to mess around with the PCIE SSD(as i have bought all the mainline Pis before it), but Alder Lake NUC made way more sense for about the same amount of money.

Currently rocking a Beelink S12 Pro (Alder Lake N100) as my hardware-transcoding Plex server. It came with a legit Windows 11 Pro license, 16 GB of DDR4 (SODIMM, not soldered) and 512 GB SSD on a 2280 card. All for less than your Orange Pi.

One final thing, its so much easier to use/maintain/deploy x86 Linux vs ARM Linux.

I just want to point out that the only time i have heard Siri append is every so often when i ask for a weather report, after she gives it she will state the source of the data.

All i wish for my 6-year-old/6th gen ipad is to be able to replace the battery for a reasonable cost... Its $119 USD, thats absurd. It literally browned out today at 28% battery..

Its made by an advertising company. I'll pass.

Even Apple cant resist it. A good chunk of their in-house apps now have places in the UI for them to place 'nudges', like the fitness app inserts a little window in between your data sets to remind you they have a paid fitness+ option. You cannot look at your data without seeing their ad. They offer it as 'trainer tip of the day' thats 30 seconds long...

Are you joking? https://moviemadness.org/

I have a USB Blu-Ray drive sitting on top of my M1 mac mini. Works great. I use it for ripping movies from the local video store. I do it for stuff like the movie Dogma, which cant be legally streamed due to rights issues.

Not all audio streams are equal. Titanfall famously shipped with uncompressed audio, leading to file bloat at the dawn of consumer SSDs (which is why the bloat was so painful, SSDs were tiny). The devs didnt want audio decode to suck up a core on dual core laptops, which were still popular at the time.

I love my USB-C 15" monitor. It was cheap, fast and works with everything (has HDMI too). I use it with my steam deck, Switch, macbook, etc. Its great.

My dedicated flight sim setup has the pc right behind the seat, with a big window showing off the parts. There are no wires showing. Any decent case today will have holes for hiding the wiring. Hell the only wires are the gpu feed lines, and they are minimized and fed through the back. No sata cables at all in it.

Not gonna mske many friends here with that boot in your mouth.

Everything is going back to the old ways. I tried to listen to a Sammy Hagar song the other day, not available on my streaming service. His anthology is on there, but they tore out all the good songs and made them unavailable. I thought, ok fine, ill just buy the track on iTunes. Nope, the only way to listen to 'The Girl Gets Around' is to buy a whole album. Its even cut out of the Footloose soundtrack. Checked every service, its the same thing. Im gonna go out later today and pick up a used CD and rip it. So fucking sick of this shit.